Rapid identification and preclinical evaluation of new P.vivax vaccine candidates based on alpha helical coiled-coil protein motifs.

Malaria is one of the most challenging public health problems with 2.5 billion people exposed to the disease in the tropics, and 500 million clinical cases reported yearly worldwide. Plasmodium vivax is responsible for more than 50% of malaria cases outside of Africa, affecting vast areas of Asia an...